Older blog entries for senthilkumar (starting at number 4)

The Gnessus project name selection is going on in full swing. I volunteered for contribution in its home page.

Audited the HPN patch for OpenSSH. Find some code parts that can be done to consume less operation. Chris rapier, the author, after discussion with his co-author replied and appreciated my auditing. There seems to be a exploit released for snort back orifice vulnerability. I need to allocate some of my time for this analysis.

People around me are in gr8 joy mood for the upcoming festival here. Me too eagerly waiting on it :-)

Suggested few names to the current Gnessus to change its name and they all get listed at http://www.gnessus.org/doku.php?id=the_team .

Snort addressed a buffer overflow vulnerability in it. Not went through much in it. Need to discuss on it.

I forecast this week will be busy to me from my workside. Things are comfortable.

There seems to be a forked version of Nessus comingup called Gnessus based on GPL. Developers are invited to join in this community at http://www.gnessus.org/. I conveyed my wishes for them and Wish them All the Best.

Analysed behaviour of login command across various Unix platforms. Tested its behaviour in honouring the securetty file on all those platforms. It looks quite interesting.

BTW, the weekend is ahead. Its really cool but I dont have much plan for this week and wish to watch some movies.

There occurs a binary compatibility problem with OpenSSL and OpenSSH. Markus replied that bug is part of OpenSSL library. I need to closely watch down the next release of OpenSSL as it seems to be 0.9.7i. The local festival here went away nicely. Nothing more here. Its raining cats and dogs.

Its really cool to begin my words here. The continuous growing of the community and support overall for its efforts are really boosting. I should keep my entries updated always. Let me see how far Im to that.